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Recent innovative research has identified key factors that put vulnerable South African women at risk of HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence, including high-risk patterns of alcohol abuse and sexual partnering, gender norms that place men in control in sexual relationships, low educational levels and limited access to employment, poor health care, inadequate housing, and sex work. These studies identified vulnerable populations of South African…
In the first half of 2009, structured interviews were conducted with 1,366 volunteers providing care-giving in six African countries as part of the “Compensations for Contributions: Creating an enabling policy framework for effective home-base care” Initiative. This action research initiative sought to capture the realities of tens of thousands of grassroots women who struggle every day to provide care and support to people living with HIV and…
This Issue Paper addresses the implications of HIV/AIDS on women’s unpaid labour burden. The authors discuss care giving in the context of HIV/AIDS, care giving as women’s work, the impact this has on women and girls, as well as promoting community hom-based care as a policy response to HIV. The paper is followed by an article by Rania Antonopoulos, From Unpaid to Paid Care Work: The Macroeconomic Implications of HIV and AIDS on Women’s Time-Tax…
Work with men has demonstrated significant potential in contributing to building gender equality and improving the health of women and men. This policy brief outlines the rationale for using policy approaches to engage men in achieving gender equality, reducing health inequities and improving women’s and men’s health; offers a framework for integrating men into policies; and highlights some successful policy initiatives.
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations from a working group of expert researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the intersection of VAW and HIV. This report includes policy and practice recommendations on national strategy panning, post-rape care, sex work, monitoring and evaluation, as well case studies addressing gender equality, VAW and HIV through community engagement and women’s empowerment.
Global health, development, and gender are now understood to be dynamic and interlinked components of U.S. foreign policy. Given the emerging policy and programmatic debates on how these three domains are to be integrated to bring the greatest returns, especially in improving the health and welfare of women and girls, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted a conference entitled “Linkages between Gender, AIDS, and Development: Implications…
ATHENA and the Gender Equality and HIV Prevention Project of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu Natal have partnered to develop a Review of Women, Girls, and Gender Equality in National Strategic Plans on HIV and AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa.
This publication is the third volume of the USAID Health Policy Initiative’s “Investing in MENA Series.” The purpose of the curriculum is to support a sustainable HIV response in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, centered on positive leadership, women’s leadership, prevention, education, and mentorship, as well as gender equality and sensitivity. Structured as a three-day workshop, it is the first curriculum of its kinds to be…
Launched in Geneva ahead of the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, this publication outlines a radically simplified HIV Treatment platform that could decrease the number of AIDS-related death drastically and could also greatly reduce the number of new HIV infections. The report provides new UNAIDS and Zogby International public opinion polls which show, that nearly 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, countries continue to rank AIDS high…
Based on the most recent data from 182 countries, this publication highlights global epidemiological trends and provides an update on the AIDS epidemic and response. It includes new country scorecards on key issues facing the AIDS response as well as trend data on incidence from more than 60 countries. Furthermore, the report provides a synopsis of achievements, failures and obstacles in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment,…
This toolkit has been prepared to help organizations create affirmative policies which promote the positive roles that men can play in improving their own sexual and reproductive health – and those of women and children. The toolkit explains why this is important and how to achieve it. It also highlights how engaging men in sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV policies, is not simply a goal in its own right, but can help move…
This resource pack aims to contribute to a better understanding of how incorporating gender awareness into approaches to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic greatly improves their chances of success. The collection features key texts which discuss different strategies that have been employed to combat the epidemic and provides recommendations for policymakers and practitioners. It provides practical examples of innovative approaches from around the…
This matrix aims to provide youth-serving organizations with a guide of topics on family planning, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and gender and segments them by age and marital status. It can assist technical experts, program managers, health providers, peer educators and others to determine what topics and interventions best fit into their own respective programs while taking cultural paradigms into consideration. The tool…
This report explores obstacles to quality care that women counter in healthcare facilities, including, lack of pre- and post-test counseling, breaches of confidentiality, discriminatory and abusive treatment, discrimination around motherhood, and coercive and forced sterilization. Section One provides an overview of the factors that contribute to Chilean women’s risk of contracting HIV. Section Two discusses HIV-positive women’s experience in…
Structured as a three-day program, this workshop manual highlights how stigma, discrimination, and gender inequality impede effective HIV and AIDS care, treatment, and prevention efforts. It is designed for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) who are involved with a PLHIV network and who plan to engage in awareness-raising or support activities with other PLHIV in their own communities. It may be adapted to meet the priorities and needs of…
This publication is the third report produced by the Women Won’t Wait Campaign aimed at holding institutions accountable for turning policy rhetoric into practice in response to the intersecting crisis of HIV and violence against women and girls. This publication analyses the policies, programming, and funding patterns of five agencies: UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, the World Bank, the US Government’s…
This publication provides a descriptive analysis of how adolescent girls and young women construct notions of risk and safety within the context of HIV/AIDS, and what strategies they develop to protect themselves. The study is based on data from interviews held with 821 young women aged from 15-24 from four communities of urban Lusaka, and supplemented by qualitative data from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. Information from…
This report is a synthesis of the key insights, questions, challenges and recommendations that emerged from a meeting held to explore emerging insights into the linkages between economic empowerment and HIV outcomes for girls and your women. It addresses two key questions: 1) What are the links between economic status and HIV vulnerability of girls and young women? and 2) What is the role of economic empowerment in preventing and mitigating HIV…
This publication compiles and summarizes evidence to support successful interventions in HIV programming for women and girls. This is a comprehensive review, spanning 2,000 articles and reports with data from more than 90 countries, that highlights a number of interventions for which there is substantial evidence of success: from prevention, treatment, care and support to strengthening the enabling environment for policies and programming. It…
This report analyzes why and how HIV/AIDS is now disproportionately affecting women, as individuals and in their roles as mothers and care-givers. It also explores new gender sensitive approaches to fighting HIV/AIDS and suggests that in order to be effective, it is necessary to deal with the inequality that both drive and are entrenched in the epidemic. The report discusses the meaning of a rights-based approach and addresses the evolution of…